Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a faithful Wii remaster, to a fault

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Of the five main games in the Fatal Frame series (known as Project Zero in Europe), only one has never been released in the west.

Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was released on the Wii back in 2008, but only in its native Japan. Fans eager to play it in the west had to import a copy, mod their Wii and apply a third-party translation patch in order to experience it properly.

Finally, some 15 years later, Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has finally been given a western release, and a modern visual remaster on top of that. The problem is, this new lick of paint doesn’t disguise the fact that, at its core, this is still a Wii game from a decade and a half ago, and it feels like it.

The game revolves around a trio of girls who head to Rogetsu Island to try to piece together what happened to them in the past. They were three of five girls who had previously disappeared during a festival on the island, and were eventually found with their memories lost.

With the other two girls dying in mysterious circumstances, it’s up to Ruka, Misaki and Madoka to try to find out what’s going on and what actually did happen to them all those years ago. Oh, and did we mention there are ghosts?

As in other entries in the series, Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a survival horror game where your weapon of choice isn’t a gun or a knife, but a special camera called the Camera Obscura.

This mystical device can be used to snap wraiths, evil ghosts that want to do you harm. Any time a confrontation with a wraith kicks in, you can bring up your Camera Obscura and are presented with a first-person viewpoint as you try to take a photo of them at just the right time to do the most damage.

It’s here where the game’s first issues arise. Old-school survival horror law dictates